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IronTy

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  1. Not sure if I should play it off as "see what's happening because budget cuts!!" or else "if this is what I'm currently paying for then just cut it all to the bone". I'll just look at my home weather station's "12hr weather forecast" function and stick with that at this point.
  2. Thanks LWX, critical analysis.
  3. Screw that, I'm ready for tree frogs, moths, and air conditioning. I'm also getting a whole-house humidifier in time for next winter.
  4. What an awesome day. I cut down about 35 tulip trees to get ready for moth season and also did a ton of trimming. Was nice to get all that done without breaking a sweat.
  5. Eccentric heal drops are your friend. Try them off your stairs at home and then progress to one leg at a time. Achilles and calf injuries become more common at middle age, though actually tearing a calf muscle absent a traumatic injury is still pretty rare.
  6. It's just he next logical step in our transition to Idiocracy. Might be smart to buy PepsCo stock futures or stock up on Mountain Dew so you can arbitrage that shit in a few years.
  7. Yeah I think we're 0 for 2 with advertised EPIC patterns the past two winters now.
  8. Solid rain with the front passage here. Hopefully enough to wash the salt off the roads. Getting tired of seeing my car covered in salt dust. Plus I can break the motorcycle out now that the salt is gone.
  9. It's been so long since we had a proper coastal storm that I'm well on the side of skepticism of any model showing one. Eventually I guess the pattern will change but I'm so gun shy at this point.
  10. I hope so! Got windows open trying to get some humidity in the house. Supposed to be working from home today and I don't see myself getting much done with how nice it is outside.
  11. 67F today, seems we don't have the easterly breeze component today so temps by the water aren't much cooler than the mainland. Barred owls hooting too, almost nesting season.
  12. Today was an example of my most hated phenomenon this time of year. Had to go to the doctor a few miles to the west of me today and it was 59F in their parking lot. Drove back to my house and the temp dropped to 51F. Must be a slight east component of the wind coming off the water. Always seems that way around now. DC will be mid-60s but here by the bay it's struggling to get out of the low 50s. Comes with the territory. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to help much in July.
  13. Back in Calvert today - lovely weather out there with nary a breeze. The bluebirds are out in full force doing their spring calling and looking in all our bluebird houses for the best nesting sites. About 7wks until the first hummingbirds arrive!
  14. Yup I think so. If we can get more days like today then I say bring it on.
  15. I ordered my Lola pepper and tomatoes seeds two days ago, gotta start them indoors next weekend. At DC House I'm thinking I'm going to cut down the large crape myrtle in front of the house and replace it with something native. I hate crape myrtles, they don't add any wildlife value.
  16. Pushing 50F in the city right now, sitting on the front stoop enjoying this gorgeous weather. A definite improvement from 24-36hrs ago.
  17. Yeah I think I had three coats on when I was sitting out there. My hands are still frozen though.
  18. Due to my situation, I guess, I spend a lot of time in my own head philosophizing about our (Earth's) place in the universe and humanity's position in it all. I have strong ideas about the industrial age and humanity's future but they probably wade into treacherous waters on the forum so I can't expand too much on it. I have a large print of Pale Blue Dot hung in my home office and whenever I need some grounding or humbling I stare at it for about ten minutes. Really puts things in perspective.
  19. Lmao, I've been on this forum for years and I don't think I've ever ventured out of the regional discussion sub-section. I just discovered a whole new part of the forum!
  20. I totally agree with you, if we could just separate out the *cause* of it from the fact that it is actually happening and always has happened and always will happen that would be great. But alas politics always inserts itself as it's been so weaponized.
  21. We're at the city house this weekend and my wife is having one of her power-broker ladies meet-ups at our house. I'm hopelessly outnumbered and outclassed. So I retreated to the sun (moon?) porch for a cigar....and it's fucking cold out! That damn wind just won't quit. I'm purposefully saving my authentic Cuban cohiba for a warm day to enjoy outside and it feels like it'll never come!
  22. Wow I saved some of the huge hailstones from those intense storms in SoMD a couple summers back the same way you did - in a ziplock bag in my freezer. You've inspired me to keep them as long as I can, maybe 30yrs from now I'll be able to pull them out as a party trick. I think the most impressive thing from your post is that you've actually gone that long without a fridge/freezer equipment failure causing it to melt!
  23. I do wish there was a way on the forum to separate out the politics and just factually discuss the effects of climate change on our future weather in the MA, but it does seem a very perilous endeavor and probably isn't worth the effort to thread that needle.
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